BR-163 is a highway in Brazil, going from Tenente Portela, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, to Santarém, Pará, on 3579 kilometers (the stretch between Santarem and Brazil-Suriname border is only a project, the highway would have a total size of 4,426.7 km if it were all implemented). [1]

BR-163 is a challenging Brazilian highway running through the heart of the Amazon Basin. Why was BR-163 highway famous? The road was famous in the past due to trucks being stuck in mud for days.

Jan 26, 2018 · Highway BR-163 cuts a brutal path through Brazil’s conflicting ambitions: to transform itself into an economic powerhouse and to preserve the Amazon as a bulwark against climate change.

BR-163 is a highway in Brazil, going from Tenente Portela, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, to Santarém, Pará, on 3579 kilometers (the stretch between Santarem and Brazil-Suriname border is only a project, the highway would have a total size of 4,426.7 km if it were all implemented).

Greenpeace activists block a 135 km illegal road, in the National Forest (Flona) of Altamira, a protected area at the margins of the BR-163 highway in the state of Pará created by the Brazilian Government in 1988.

May 15, 2007 · It’s a cloudy Tuesday morning and three 4X4s are leaving downtown Santarém in the northern Brazilian state of Pará towards Highway BR-163, one of the main roads cutting through the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

Nov 2, 2022 · It’s a Brazil best know traveling along the 3,579 kilometers of the BR-163 highway from the south to the north. It links the two most important migration processes in Brazil's recent history.

The road, which goes from Castelo do Sonho to Guaranta, in Para State, cuts directly through the National Forest and is used for illegal logging operations and deforestation inside the protected area.

Jan 1, 2023 · This article seeks to synthesize and analyze the complex recent and future territorial manifestations of the BR-163 concession (Sinop/Mato Grosso to Itaituba/Miritituba/Pará).

Feb 7, 2020 · According to Bloomberg, “BR-163, the critical Brazilian road where soybean trucks would frequently get mired in muck, is now paved for its entire 1,000-mile (1,609-kilometer) final stretch –from Sinop, in Mato Grosso, to Miritituba, in Para state.” The round trip has been reduced from 10 to 4 days.